Society, R: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Societ

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Society, R: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Societ

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Excerpt from Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 27: Containing Papers, Abstracts of Papers, and Reports of the Proceedings of the Society, From November 1866, to June 1867; Being the Annual Half-Volume of the Memoirs and Proceedings of the Royal Astronomical Society

Since the time spoken of in the Report from which I have quoted,' two excellent determinations of Jupiter's mass from the motions of his satellites have been made, the first by Airy, the second by Bessel. The observations used by the former were made partly at Cambridge, and partly at Greenwich. The author remarks in the first of his three papers on the subject (memoirs of the R. A. S., vol. Vi., p. That, consi dering the great importance of the mass of Jupiter in both planetary and cometary investigations, it seems remarkable that no attempts should lately have been made to ascertain the correct value from the readiest of all means, the elongations of his satellites. It is true that the value adopted by Laplace.

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